PRINCESS ELIZABETH received what would now be considered a very unusual gift when she married Prince Philip on November 20, 1947, inside London’s Westminster Abbey, a documentary reveals.

The royal couple’s blissful marriage has gone from strength to strength over 72 years, which has seen Elizabeth transform from Princess to Queen, have four children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. When the monarch’s father King George VI gave his blessing for the couple’s marriage in 1946, Prince Philip admitted he had “fallen in love completely and unreservedly”. The Duke of Edinburgh proposed to the Queen with a three-carat round diamond ring consisting of “a centre stone flanked by 10 smaller pave diamonds”.

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According to 2014 documentary “The Majestic Life of Queen Elizabeth II”, the couple received around 1700 wedding presents for their big day.

However, several hundreds of the same item were only for Elizabeth.

Royal biographer Robert Lacey said: “One of the charming things is that, I think, of the 1700 or so wedding presents that were officially listed, several hundreds were nylon stockings, which loyal ladies in the country decided to send to the princess.

“They knew, in those hard times, what every girl wanted.”

Princess Elizabeth received what now would be considered a very unusual gift when she married (Image: GETTY)